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What Matters Most On Monday, December 7, 2015

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Ambulances arrive at the scene of a stabbing attack near the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron on December 7, 2015. (Magen David Adom)

Israeli critically injured in Hebron stabbing; attacker shot dead

By Judah Ari Gross and Raoul Wootliff

Victim in his 40s evacuated to Jerusalem hospital with serious wounds to upper body

President Barack Obama addresses the nation from the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, Sunday night, Dec. 6, 2016. (Saul Loeb/Pool Photo via AP)

Obama: Terror threat against US has entered ‘new phase’

WATCH: In rare Oval Office address, US president defends current anti-terror strategy, urges tolerance toward Muslims and that Muslims confront terror ‘without excuse’

IS attack on Israel a matter of time, official says

Coalition airstrike said to kill 4 Syrian regime soldiers

By AFP and ToI Staff

California shooter attended Pakistani female madrassa

By Khurram SHAHZAD

John Kerry at the Saban Forum, December 5, 2015 (YouTube Screenshot)

Analysis

What John Kerry should have told the Saban Forum

By David Horovitz

Op-ed: We were short-sighted, hesitant, weak. We failed to create the climate in which you in Israel could take the steps you need to take to separate from the Palestinians. I hope my successors will do better

File: Israeli security forces gather at the site where a Palestinian stabbed an Israeli near the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron, on December 7, 2015. (AFP/Hazem Bader)

Live updates (closed)

Decision made on Mossad chief after exhaustive process, official says

By Joshua Davidovich

Source denies ‘last-minute pressure’ caused delay in live announcement, says PM conducted intensive talks with nominees

Israeli security forces and forensics transport the body of Mazen Aribe, who was shot following an attack at the Hizme checkpoint, north of Jerusalem, on December 3, 2015. (AFP/Ahmad Gharabli)

Analysis

The collapse of the PA may already be here

By Avi Issacharoff

It’s a short path from a single member of the security forces carrying out an attack, as occured Thursday, to all-out chaos in which Israel is forced to recapture West Bank cities

Clinton: Alternative to Abbas ‘could be black flag of Islamic State’

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Clinton: Educate youth about Israel-US bond

By JTA

Palestinians donate to rebuild homes of Henkin killers

Rabbi Mendel Azimov, president of Chabad of Paris, lit a Hanukkah menorah in front of the Eiffel Tower on December 6, 2015. (Greg Scruggs/The Times of Israel)

For Parisian Jews this holiday, celebrating Hanukkah is a miracle

By Gregory Gutterman Scruggs

Despite the ongoing state of emergency in France, the Festival of Lights is publicly feted in the City of Light

Chinese descendants of Jews celebrate Hanukkah

By Stuart Winer

Millions of Jews light first candle of Hanukkah, the ‘festival of lights’

Women light Hanukkah candles at Western Wall

By JTA

Newsflash: Zero terror in Israel

One country is absent from a leading S. African news site’s map charting the global incidence of terrorism in 2015

Yossi Sarid: Rebel with a cause

The late ex-Knesset member leaves a legacy of upright leadership and a nonstop struggle to make Israel a better place

The culture war is about women

Darkness will be vanquished only when women step out of the shadows and, together, face the men who abuse them

Why I don’t sing Christmas Carols

Hanukkah, the symbol of holy particularism, suggests that when it comes to Silent Night Jews should be silent

French far-right Front National party head Marine Le Pen reacts to first-round results in regional elections in the Nord Picardie region on December 6, 2015 at a polling station in Henin-Beaumont. (AFP Photo/Denis Charlet)

French far-right sees record score in first poll since terror attacks

By Eric RANDOLPH

In regional elections, anti-immigrant Front National does best in 25-49 age range; Socialists withdraw from some ballots in bid to stem FN rally

Bono, left, and Adam Clayton of U2 perform on stage during a concert, in Paris, Sunday, Dec. 6, 2015. U2’s performance in Paris on Sunday night wasn’t just about music _ it had a mournful tinge, too. Frontman Bono paid respects to 130 people killed by terrorists in Paris on Nov. 13, and 14 people killed in a mass shooting last week in California. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

U2’s Bono honors victims in Paris, San Bernardino

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a Likud faction meeting at the Knesset on December 7, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

PM accuses Sweden of hypocrisy over Israeli response to terror

By Tamar Pileggi

Netanyahu slams Stockholm for silence on the handling of Paris, California attacks after Wallstrom’s reported condemnation of Jewish state

Benjamin Netanyahu delivering a video address on December 6, 2015. (screen capture: YouTube)

PM points to Palestinian denial of Jewish state as root of conflict

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

WATCH: Speaking to Saban Forum, Netanyahu derides as ‘childish and irrelevant’ claims that settlements at core of Israel-Palestinian fighting

Illustrative: An IAF F-16 from the Red Dragon squadron during a drill, November 2013. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit/Flash90)

Israel strikes Gaza after attacks on IDF vehicles

No immediate reports of damage or casualties after air strike against Hamas target in northern part of strip

Senior Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) member Khalida Jarrar, sitting at the Ofer Military Court near Ramallah on May 21, 2015. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)

Palestinian lawmaker given 15 months for ‘inciting terror’

By Tamar Pileggi and AFP

Military court jails PFLP member Khalida Jarrar for urging abduction of IDF soldiers and violating an Israeli travel ban

A police officer stands guard outside Leytonstone station in north London on December 6, 2015 (AFP/Leon Neal)

Police charge suspect in London Tube stabbing

By Robin MILLARD

29-year-old Muhaydin Mire allegedly shouted ‘This is for Syria’ as he stabbed, seriously wounded 56-year-old passer-by

Illustrative: A gas pipeline in the Sinai Peninsula sabotaged by a jihadist group in 2012. (AP/File)

Egypt freezes gas import talks after Israel wins $1.76b ruling

Cairo cuts off negotiations after International Chamber of Commerce orders Egyptian companies to pay up for violating gas deal with Israel

Crime boss Rico Shirazi smiles at photographers at the Tel Aviv District Court on November 02, 2015. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Mob boss gets eight years for tax crimes

By Tamar Pileggi

Rico Shirazi convicted of money laundering, fraud and conspiracy; also implicated in sweeping Case 512

Sesame Enable co-founder Giora Livne uses the Sesame Phone. (Basti Hansen)

No-hands-needed smartphone to be made available for free

By David Shamah

Individuals who are paralyzed or otherwise disabled can now be part of the digital revolution, says Sesame Phone inventor Oded Ben Dov

Applicants at the Kemach office in Jerusalem (Courtesy)

Kemach offers Haredim a dignified way out of poverty

By Simona Weinglass

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Illustrative photo of a decorated earlobe. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Hear O IsraelHanukkah greeting ad flummoxes NYT readers

By Stuart Winer

File: British singer and musician Sir Elton John performs in a venue near Tel Aviv, on June 17, 2010. (Flash90)

Elton John to headline ‘Life Festival’ in Auschwitz town

By JTA

A police officer stands guard outside Leytonstone station in north London on December 6, 2015 (AFP/Leon Neal)

Mind the hashtagYouAintNoMuslimBruv takes Twitter by storm

By AFP and ToI Staff

A view of an Afula street (Shay Levy/Flash90)

Assailants attack school guard, grab his gun in Afula

By Stuart Winer

Image showing 'Dagger' perfume for sale in the Gaza Strip (screen capture: YouTube)

Eau de terrorDagger-shaped scent bottle a hot sell in Gaza

Illustrative photo of demonstrators chanting pro-Islamic State slogans as they carry the group's flags in front of the provincial government headquarters in Mosul, Iraq, June 16, 2014. (AP, File)

Hebrew media reviewWhat threats may come

By Joshua Davidovich

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